How to achieve the square brackets in 2.27?

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I still use Windows (don’t stone me please) and I could get those–> [ ] in the text window by using Alt and numpad 91 or 93, so far so good. This old and sometimes useful feature is seemingly gone in 2.27 but Alt Gr 8 and 9 do not work either (like they should). So is there a better way than buying an american keyboard?

regards

Haunt_House

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Don’t need to buy an american keyboard, just change the keyboard language to English and it should work.

What version of windows are you using?

In 98/ME, you have to change that in the Regional Settings

In XP (not sure for 2K), there should be a language bar thingy at the bottom, or check the Languages tab in the Regionnal and Languages Settings.

Martin

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hm, and I’d have to put stickers on every key :-?

My memory is occupied with hiragana and katakana atm, so I can’t use it.

seems it’s better to code outside blender or use 2.23

thanks Martin

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Well, it IS better to code outside anyway, especially if you use an IDE especially done for Python (like IDLE).

Just remember the Ctrl-R key that reloads the text from file. So now you can edit outside, save and just press Ctrl-R over the Python window to laod the changes.

Martin

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Ctrl Rkey?

Hm, valuable info, thanks

but I still envy the Photoshop/image ready relationship

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I believe JMS adresses this in his faq:

http://jmsoler.free.fr/didacticiel/blender/tutor/commefaire_trad.htm

basically for win 95/98 it goes something like:

control panel
keyboard
… (see faq)
languages
enable Left_Alt+Shift, or…

not sure for later Window versions

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JarellSmith: Works the same way in XP: Alt-Shift to switch between languages.

Martin

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I have win 2ooo ( i believe this tip will run on any windows platform) and a french keyboard.
Here’s what i do to write a [ in the text window

i copy to the clipboard ( CTRL +C ) a [ on any text editor (like notepad…)
and i copy it to the text window using CTRL + shift + V.

hope it’ll help.

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shift alt

how come you didn’t notice this before?

it’s a pain in the ass - every time I drag viewport it changes my keymap.

if you edit outside
http://www.fixedsys.com/context/

ctrl R